[ewg] Re: ofed-1.3-rc4: openibd restart issue on ppc64

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Hoang-Nam Nguyen wrote:
> Hello Vlad!
> Tested ofed-1.3-rc4 on ppc64 and saw the message below after I had called
> /etc/init.d/openibd restart:
> 
> xyz:~ # /etc/init.d/openibd restart
>  
> Unloading firmware_class                                   [FAILED]
> ERROR: Module firmware_class is in use by ipr
> 
> In openibd I saw this def:
> UNLOAD_MODULES="ib_mthca mlx4_enet mlx4_ib mlx4_core ib_ipath ipath_core ib_ehca iw_cxgb3 cxgb3 firmware_class"
> 
> That means the script tried to unload firmware_class, which is still in use by
> ipr (SCSI driver) in my case, and therefore failed. Is there a reason to
> unload that base module fimrware_class here? In RC3 and earlier RCs I didn't
> see that.
> 
> Regards
> Nam
> 
> 

Hello Nam,
I removed firmware_class module from the openibd script.

Regards,
Vladimir